The History of the Isle Legacy

[@XZaguer]

I have seen a lot of people mentioning this topic so I will address it here just for context: I didn't mention Evrima in this video because that specific branch of the game is clearly a new vision for the Isle and since it has such major differences I opted to not include it in the video. The next question will probably be "why isn't the video called The History of The Isle legacy then?", the answer for that is that, to me and many others, Legacy IS the Isle. Practically the entire community started playing the game between 2015-2020, and all our memories and love for the game come from legacy. I am aware that Evrima is the future of the game, and it is objectively more polished and improved to a degree, and once that branch is fully realized, it will without a doubt be superior to legacy. However, I feel that Evrima has lost something, it is hard to describe since it's completely subjective, but I believe most of the community can agree with me on that front. Probably just nostalgia. Once Evrima becomes the definitive dominant version of the Isle I will change the title to legacy, but until then it will stay as it is. Feel free to share your thoughts and opinions, just make sure to stay polite guys, stay safe :)

[@flavioncho8310]

Hello X Zaguer! , I want to tell you first what a good job. Second thing I want to tell you is you are absolutely right. I think it's great that you have approached the Legacy and the evrima as 2 different topics. Even when my friends and I call each other to play this message we say "do we play the isle?" and when we play the other version we say "we play evrima". So even for us evrima is another game, it can be something visually beautiful with new mechanics, but a certain essence has been lost.

[@BodeBagwell]

@@flavioncho8310 I tried that once before a while back, it didn't work, but when you showed that update in May 10th, that's where you got your footage from?

[@BodeBagwell]

@@flavioncho8310 Or was that just footage from over the years?

[@flavioncho8310]

@@BodeBagwell I did not understand anything. haha sorry, my native language is Spanish, I'm from Argentina. and I don't know if the translation is 100% correct of what I wanted to write. That is why I would not understand what you are talking to me about what I wrote

[@kevinjennings8272]

amen im new to the isle and i like legacy more currently. Dilo for life!!!!! I pray they dont ruin dilo/ the day night cycle / night vision when its actually implemented in evrima.

[@jacobcox4565]

I remember when TheGamingBeaver played an early version of the game. Those were the days, back when you could play as a human and spawn dinos wherever you wanted.

[@blowflymcgee2022]

oh my god i just remembered that!!! that video was great

[@A3nth0]

I still watch beavers old isle vids every once and a while just to get some memorys back

[@theotheseaeagle]

Yup, I remember when he played as a dryo in his 1st vid and the npc pue fainted lol

[@theotheseaeagle]

@@A3nth0 same

[@RavenTheVelociraptor]

I'm so glad someone did this. I've wanted to see a comprehensive of The Isle for so long

[@IceLizardsUnited]

I always look at The Isle's development as a case study on why Development Roadmap/Management is important to Game Design. It took almost 5 years of mismanagement and God knows how many map remakes before development became streamlined and on track to what was promised in the initial Kickstarter video.

[@burneraccounthandle]

LOL

[@IndominusRex-wc1ey]

That... aged really poorly

[@someguywithawi-ficonnectio931]

Welp

[@pasteldreams5413]

the isle's development is many things, but "streamlined" and "on track" are not among that list lol

[@r.k845]

@@pasteldreams5413 More streamlined than this

[@pausitive8014]

wow, as someone whose been playing the game since almost release this video is amazingly nostalgic. I truly hope this video blows up in the community and more people are able to see it.

[@XZaguer]

Im glad you enjoyed it :) feel free to share it with your friends :)

[@ShamoTheharpy]

thank you for your amazing pfp godbless you

[@pasteldreams5413]

for real. seeing the old menu image and character selection gave me so much nostalgia. remember before the foliage update when there were next to no trees? remember when they removed the ramp from v2 because people wouldn't stop fighting over it? remember cannonball lake? man. the game had so much less back then than it does now, yet most of the hours i've put into the isle were spent on that bare bones version. now, i scarcely play at all. how ironic

[@pausitive8014]

@@pasteldreams5413 Yep haha same here, I have almost 1.2k hours and pretty much all of it was spent before evrima was even announced. The game really used to have such a charm to it that ill always remember. I haven't played in months.

[@AlwaysHorseLove]

I can only imagine the amount of work you have put into this video. LOVED IT!!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@XZaguer]

Was indeed quite a lot, im glad people have been enjoying it so far :)

[@Kokogata]

Eva you play the isle? I love your horses and your videos. You are doing amazing work

[@AlwaysHorseLove]

@@Kokogata I did all the time, but not a lot of time now, I loved it and hopefully soon!!!

[@Kokogata]

@@AlwaysHorseLove Yeah I can understand owning horses means a lot of work and you have and your personal life so it's difficult to find the time. I just hope we will meet someday in-game it will be so cool

[@AlwaysHorseLove]

@@Kokogata It is but I’m my own boss so I have freedom too! What is your ingame name? Mine is EvaShilasFlip. Hope we can play sometime! I miss it so bad.

[@Soulvex]

I quite liked Progression, it was intense, you couldnt trust anyone and everyone was scary.

[@Nickboay]

Progression was the best gamemode 100% , every Rex you would come across had FOUGHT for being a rex and survived countless playtroughs to reach it. Every rex was Dangerous, nowadays i find that the quality of species played has heavily decreased in terms of skill level. Because in progression days, if you did not have what it took, you would not reach Rex. The volume of diversity in species was also very rich due to the "forced" format of having to play trough most of them to reach what u wanted to become. AI didnt exist, hunting was challenging , you fail to catch a player, you die. I miss it so much im ngl. Progession was the best stage of this game

[@itshananahbanana]

I love how EVERY time you talk about the dibble, it's like "hell music" ahahhahaa. Top notch on this, good job. It's nice to see how, as someone who didn't get involved with the Isle until the end of 2019, how the game progressed and started off!

[@Laacer]

Nostalgia hit me with this one, good job! I have been playing since 2016 so most of us veterans saw more promised things to be added to legacy than this video could show, but then again, those promises never came through and we are left to hope that evrima can bring those promises alive in the future. Forgot how many maps there actually were lol, was nice seeing those again. Even thought the development speed has slowed down a lot, evrima updates has shown us that the ambitions are still high in the dev team. And you sir, deserve more likes for this video, I bet it was a lot of hard work!

[@XZaguer]

im glad you enjoyed the video :) it was indeed a lot of work, but always worth it

[@DeepForestRex]

Nice seeing you here Laacer

[@Laacer]

@@DeepForestRex and you :D

[@hollysaurus]

“Skins have been removed.....*black screen* .... for some reason” This tickled me for some reason lol!

[@RavenTheVelociraptor]

Because REASONS

[@TaintedNimbus]

Having gotten into this game late 2020, I very much so appreciate this video. This game is amazing yet it feels like it could be so much better, had the devs not started their odd habit of removing things so often.

[@ElfainDeLeon]

It was a lot of fun earlier on! Especially when progression was still somewhat obtainable for the casual player. I was definitely addicted, though, but it was still a lot of fun around 2016-2016.

[@VCRchnl01]

So much has changed and yet not a lot has changed. They keep starting up something new only to scrap it completely and start something new again.

[@AlexeiX1]

You have not been keeping up with evrima have you? They are building an actual game this time, been in constant and good development in over a year.

[@giagarex]

@@AlexeiX1 That remains to be seen 😉

[@AlexeiX1]

@@giagarex no not really, its already seen. The game is in actual development, has a roadmap and planned patches. You can see it here, and the playable content right now is already so much more polished than legacy ever was: trello.com/b/G5tsb4XI/public-roadmap

[@KenanTheFab]

@@AlexeiX1 from the future of 5 months: haha no

[@Sassy_Witch]

@@AlexeiX1 lol this aged badly

[@graciliraptor3990]

When V3 had a vaste expanse of sand that we first thought was a desert, but was a place holder for salt water (ocean)

[@yoggyasf6270]

I've been following the game since it first dropped in my freshmen year of high school... now I'm an upcoming junior in college and I can say this is the most accurate and in-depth video of the isle's life cycle as a game so far. So many memories T.T

[@x1r0n83]

Redwood was so beautiful, hands down my favorite map ever.

[@johndasalty111]

This video gave me so much nostalgia. I first started playing the isle in between September 8th 2016 when sandbox was removed and March 2017 when it was put back. Some of the modded maps of 2017 will always hold a special place in my heart. One map in particular: 'Terra Vitae' this map was one of the best modded maps I've ever played on and let's see if anyone else here remembers it too...

[@EmeraldDreams7]

The giant Maia herds roaming the plains of Terra Vitae will forever be etched into my 2017 memories

[@cbamuhammad2417]

Dude, at the time when I first started playing it seemed like such a huge gap between updates... but thinking back now, seeing how I went from progression in August 2016 with carnivore dryo( start), to the bary(edit)being added, super utah speed, progression plants, hypos, swamp, and revamped biomes like redwood, then mods, then mass spread of REALISM... I can only realistically say that the area between 2016-2018 was the golden age of The Isle in my opinion.

[@cbamuhammad2417]

Now I miss the ankle biting austris that would RIP my acro, I miss the Gallis who’d destroy your austro 30 minutes in... 😔

[@ElfainDeLeon]

I remember this and the nostalgia.. i definitely miss it. i remember that for its time, its graphics were top notch and the sandbox era was just so much fun. more fun than it currently is, dare i say. like right now they're clearly striving for perfection which is great but in doing so a lot was sacrificed and it lost some of it's battle elements that it once had.

[@Ghost-no9hb]

Grim expanse?

[@ThatZenoGuy]

The Isle is the only game where more things were removed, than added.

[@ScaphPotato]

So are those long pauses for whiping away the tears of memories?

[@XZaguer]

I would say yes but sadly im a mid 2018 isle player xd

[@ScaphPotato]

@@XZaguer I'm a 2020 quarantine player but I mean, I've watched KZbin for longer that that.

[@chikeneu131]

@@XZaguer I remember i used to play back in like 2015 on my old laptop and it was running lowest settings at about 10 fps but now im on my trash pc but if I try envirma i get 15 fps cause my pc is now like 3 years old and its my first build so i was dumb enough to put a 1050 and a amd fx 8350 into as the gpu and cpu ;(

[@tearex12345]

@@XZaguer I played early 2018. I really wish I played in the 2016/17 says. It seemed so much more fun back then.

[@RaZoR_Vids]

Well done 👍🏼 I’ve followed this game off and on for years, the Redwood forest by far was most beautiful. It’s amazing what these developers have done, and yes it is sad to see Legacy abandoned. At least It was left in it’s most balanced state, it is now time for the isle to step up to the future. Evrima is fantastic and Gorgeous in its own right, and to see where we are today in the isle is just amazing.

[@chinchy111]

Yeah redwood was gorgeous i heard they are bringing it back but it might be a rumor

[@Evelighte]

@@chinchy111 seeing as this comment was 8 months ago and I myself haven't even heard of this, it seems unlikely but I started playing the isle on the redwood map so it has some special place in my heart

[@chinchy111]

Have they added anything new to the game. I dont like the new map its too big

[@Cardiocab]

"We did not see any updates for months, and there would be no news for the rest of the year" Evrima players: "First time?"

[@sawyerschmelzer2036]

I am a huge fan of the isle! It’s hard to watch a game with so much potential slow down. I really hope to see more things comes to the game faster! Thank you for this great video! Well executed!

[@Txseo225]

Just seeing these old memories since I've played the isle since 2015 wants to make me cry 🥲

[@heli0ns]

Really nostalgic video. I find myself missing the unique atmosphere many of these versions had to them.

[@TheLivingGuildpact]

NGL I miss The Isle of Wynter days. It felt like a lot more people were playing and messing around. Lots of chaos, but it was in good fun.

[@Boots43096]

i never got into this game until gateway came out so it's awesome being able to see how it changed.

[@Quick-Silver206]

Remember when games were released after they were made and not before? Hell, The Isle seems to have been developed in reverse.

[@Woofie]

I bought the isle sometimes in June of 2016 and good GOD was it amazing to me. Even with everything that's happened with the development, I don't regret buying the game. I have a loooot of great memories from the past five-ish years. Over 2000 hours of playtime for 20$. I may be disappointed in a lot of the twists and turns the game took, but it doesn't change the fact that I DEFINITELY got my money's worth.

[@kukkahi]

I started playing in April 2016. I had forgotten how fast the updates actually happened. I miss that time and especially Region 2. I made my dearest The Isle memories there. Flying as a quetz was great too. I wish I had done it more. I'm sad to see I missed the caves and the redwood since I got tired of playing and didn't check back regularly anymore. Thank you for the great video and nostalgia :)

[@ioannisdiam]

It's funny that Isle 2015 looks better than Beasts of Bermuda 2021

[@Thgin1]

not true. the isle is still dog water

[@TheRandomWolf]

@@Thgin1 you haven’t seen evrima or the beta test yet?

[@beanzboi8924]

You take that back

[@Thgin1]

@@beanzboi8924 no.

[@obuty_napiwek2454]

@@Thgin1 look at the gateway on evrima

[@AvengedPanzer]

This is quite saddening. I've only owned the isle for a year, but I have followed its development for about 3 or 4 years, seeing how much it has changed and all the nostalgia really hits. I hope Legacy never gets forgotten, even if it will be replaced by Evrima.

[@sinressfyodie4124]

How did 2016 have such simple yet actually fun looking maps that make you wanna explore and run over all that open space? All we have now are trees, more trees, bush covered death drops and lighting that burns your eyes out of your sockets. Dont get me started on the fps

[@collandrarunkle7141]

Love the video. You did great work. I honestly forgot half the things that were happening early in the game. There are some discrepancies tho, most come from content being unavailable or locked for private hosting it looks like. Ai was in v3 from 2016-2017, it was a awful galli that stood in place and sometimes yelled but still ai, there was also more around the time v2 got its final rework, angry trikes that would chase you to the ends of the earth. I believe v4 was also the largest map before Evirmas Isla Spiro. 2 maps were left out, grim expanse and the stoneclaw highlands (these were though the workshop and were removed just before mods were no longer supported) I remember these being official maps made by a now former developer. Mod support was also removed 2018(?), around the time growth was becoming the major game mode, well before the mod menu option was removed. Evirma's development started 2018, surprised nothing was mentioned further on it seeing how it is still apart of the games history. Im also surprised nothing was mentioned about the Stomping Lands, its where the 1st dino models/skins came from.

[@XZaguer]

I tried the best i can but sladly the games had 547 updates if im not mistaken, so it was kinda inevitable that something was going to be missed. Grun expanse and stoneclaw were never present in the files and since they were mods i never had access to them (trust me, i wanted to). I was aware of the stomping land's models but i didnt think it was significant information to be added since it was about another game so i chose to not included. Same thing with Evrima, that branch is clearly a different vision for the game so i treated seperately and prefered to just mention it in the end. I appreciate the criticism tho :)

[@TheFowlWitch]

As a player who has been here since day 1 its so surreal to see the game in its day 0 phase again after going on 6 years since release. The journey was hard but that made it worth it!

[@svarta1180]

I started the game in december 2015, and tbh the most enjoyable thing I tried in this game was the quetz stress test, was just too fun to play with this kamikaze birb in V2 with Dondi and the others. It was a long journey since 2015 but still the best survival dino game and with evrima, it's more enjoyable than ever. Thanks for this vid' bro you got my memories back, gotta go play the ptera on evrima now to continue this story

[@DaiN9636]

personally i loved the isle because it's a scary and one could say "hardcore" game in the sense that you can lose hours of progress in seconds or because of one small mistake making you start over... but that's what makes the game so replay-able, if you like the game and it's core idea then you can't get enough of it... the feeling of laying in a bush as a juvie or sub in the dark, seeing only a few meters away from you (except if you play the demons.. ugh.. i mean dilos :') ) and hearing tthose stomps and calls around you truly makes your heart race and that's what i loved so much... now evrima feels like it lost much of that, i heard now the newest update they added night vision and made the nights darker which i love and i will download evrima again to see how it is but that's the thing.. i always go back to legacy..... i really hope they make evrima as close as possible to legacy otherwise for me they will ruin the game... if people want to play arcade games there's beasts of bermuda and path of titans and stuff like that but isle was meant to be a simulator more than just a game.. it's supposed to be hard dark and scary .. that's the heart of the isle

[@rhea_pigeon]

Incredible video! All the work you put into it really shows! I've played off and on since the beginning and had forgotten what a lot of these maps looked like so it was a lovely trip of nostalgia

[@Volik..]

i wish i played more of legacy, i truly do miss those times and i'd love to go back. :(

[@mojolmao1752]

2019 and early 2020 isle was for me the most fun ive ever had in my life

[@ElfainDeLeon]

This is a great video! Brought back a lot of memories of the older days when I would play this game non-stop for hours on end. I used to play back in the Summer of 2016 all the way up until around to the end of 2017 or early 2018. I got back into it a few times after that but never as consistently as before. I feel like the game was incredibly fun at the start of its lifetime, I'd go as far as to say it peaked around this time. I remember how much fun it was to be able to jump into a game and just see packs of herbivores being attacked by carnivores, having such an emphasis on combat made it a lot of fun for all parties involved. I would say the era of 2016 sandbox was definitely one of its peaks for sure. The early days of progression is arguably its second peak, I remember watching TheGamingBeaver's videos and jumping straight into it on Region 2. What made it work so well is not only the wide variety of dinosaurs to progress to, but also the fact that progression times were long enough to make you think twice about senselessly attacking anyone, but not long enough to turn away casual players. I think during this time a lot of that emphasis on combat definitely dissipated since there was a healthy emphasis on survival. I remember Utah's would run entire servers back then and it was definitely a lot of fun trying to work your way to the top. I think in total it was barely over an hour to make it to an apex, which is nearly nothing compared to what people play now to reach adulthood. I remember staying up for hours on end on school nights just watching the Dev's stream and hearing them speak on their plans for Hypos. Other memorable moments were when Spino's were added, nesting, or when they gave people the chance to work their way up to a Hypo Rex for a certain amount of progression points. It was truly a lot of fun. That being said, I feel like overtime the game as a whole has lost its light, and the developers have lost their spark. What good does a game full of perfectly polished dinosaurs do me when the design of the game is fundamentally flawed? At times, it truly feels like the game is going backwards. I don't know how much time they think we have on our hands but the current play-times they want their community to give to the game is borderline insane. Especially considering you'll be pretty useless for more than half of it as you still reach adulthood, it's currently peak "Go AFK, come back, AFK again, and wait till you're adult." Like, no one should be playing 6 hours just to reach adulthood. Borderline insanity. And on top of that, it's lost a lot of its diversity in dinosaurs. I feel like it's a golden rule of gaming to cater to the general public and not the people who have 9 hours straight to play, because while fan-bases do exist, they'll never be as good as having a fanbase + a casual gamer community. Great job with the video! It was a lot of fun to watch. TL;DR: What good does having a perfectly polished Deino, Utah, Ptero, etc. do us when the game is fundamentally flawed? It's insane that most people can say they had more fun in the earlier days of The Isle than they do now. The game is taking one step forward but twenty steps backwards all at once.

[@XZaguer]

Thank you very much, I'm glad that you enjoyed the video :) sadly I never experienced the isle in its prime, that, and watching how the game is reversing made me want to go back in time and try to experience how the game was back in the day, and I got to say, the difference is night and day. The game changed a lot, and unfortunately, most of it wasn't for the best. But now with evrima, all we can do is to wait and see if the devs show us that they are capable of recreating the charm the isle once had

[@ElfainDeLeon]

@@XZaguer For sure! I think the devs are incredibly talented people and the rate of progress IS in check with the amount of developers on the team, but like we were saying, a dino that's perfect in every department will do no good in a world that has no diversity and nothing in store for it. I'm obviously gonna hope the devs turn this one back around because I'd like to see them win! It's just sad because it feels like they very quickly removed so much content in an attempt to make the game better but all it did was dig it down deeper.

[@Boomstick___]

Man the early isle gives me beasts of Bermuda vibes

[@Choukai_Chan]

Well, I started to play during March of 2016, so this video is basically a nostalgia path for me.

[@Zoidschica]

I have 1 word. SUBSCRIBED!! Man the memories!!!! I’ve played this game since it came out in 2015. I’ve love this game. And legacy will always have a special place in my heart. Thank you for this video 😇

[@cooker54]

I've been following this game since it came out, and I was so happy to be able to get a PC over a year ago and download and play. This video is amazing, I love your humor too ! When you did the Skyrim part I started laughing wayyyyyyyyyyy too hard hahahaha

[@Suchomimus65]

I got the game within a week of its release on steam, and I’ve played it pretty consistently ever since. I remember all of this. Early progression on Region 2 was my favorite chapter, it was complete chaos and constant paranoia. Thanks for the trip back in time!

[@unumwetwetwe]

Wonderful video. I remember playing taco in progression when I was a kid, not understanding the game, before putting it aside. I've replayed it a lot recently, and this video was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much

[@linden8911]

I don't think it's just nostalgia, but the fact that you can communicate with anyone on the server in Legacy. At Evrima you only go with your fellows (species), which makes the whole thing more threatening and more exciting for me personally. Also, you can no longer just hide in the bushes, just do something else (take a quick look at KZbin or something like that) and then eat and drink a little and get bigger. Because you can now be sniffed out, you are constantly exposed to danger. Especially since the night is not completely dark and the no longer available night vision does not restrict your field of vision. By the way, great work you've done here.

[@blueraptor1013]

Isle v2 by August 2017 is still the best map to ever hit this game (excluding mods). Providing enough room to find a good location to survive, while not being too huge to where you rarely see anyone. The foliage/colors were really good too the bushes being multicolored and having enough room to hide or sneak around in. Good landmarks and interesting terrain too.

[@juracan8591]

Great video! I only joined the game about a month before Evrima when the hype for it was insane, but I had been following the game for many years through KZbin. At the time I didn't have a PC to play it on, but when I did get one in 2019, The Isle was entangled in tons of drama that kept me away from buying it alongside with many development issues. I am watching Evrima's progress excitedly, even though I wish it would go I bit faster. According to the devs, updates might come faster than update 3 took since Deinosuchus and Pteranodon had specialized mechanics that took them longer to complete. Part of me does wish you covered Evrima in this, but from reading the pinned comment I can tell there are some reasons that would've probably gotten in the way from you covering it objectively. This is your video however, and that was my only criticism besides maybe getting a dedicated microphone. Keep it up! I'll be on the lookout for any other content.

[@XZaguer]

Thank you, I really appreciate the criticism :) Indeed it seems that the most criticized part of the video is the lack of Evrima coverage, which is understandable and I didn't clarify it properly in the video, hence the pinned comment. I will probably make another documentary to Evrima in the future and change the name of this one to Legacy for context sake. Again, thank you for the kind words :)

[@ZEE-ZIBUKA]

It was educational. To see what this game has grown from and what it has come to. Thank you. especially for the beautiful forests!

[@berechiahbirch3336]

Hey man I used to play this game with you all the time on New beginnings! You were a god like dibble player, Keep up the good work!

[@XZaguer]

Oh hey man! I don't see you in a good bit, still playing?

[@berechiahbirch3336]

Yeah I still play quite a bit, I'm mostly on Evrima now though. It's difficult to go back to legacy after playing evrima lol

[@theninjascout]

Just a tiny correction in case anyone cares: 12:07 isn't bone break, but rather, every dinosaur would start limping once they reach a 10% HP threshold. The limping animations were then used for bone break, and limping due to low health was removed.

[@AeroSlayer74]

Video just came up on my recommended. Brings back some of the better memories of the old game. Misty Valley was actually a pretty cool map that got no love, unfortunately. Great video.

[@Mich_as]

My Russian friend... I never saw that good video about the isle like this one.Whole text of video works really well with rest of details. It was so emotional. Amazing job with frame rate between updates. On the begginning when game was young very fast run ups from one update to another and between the last updates a bit slower run ups, musics make their job beautifully. I ve nearly cried on end. Very beautiful video but i don t think it s just about game. It s a bit like a life history - when life begins everything goes so fast and at the end of being all slows down. This video gaved me much to think and i have to say it s pretty mysterious game. Once again really good job!

[@mcbid8782]

It's so sad. Like this game WAS amazing. I enjoyed every moment in it. Sad it's not getting updated. Hope evrima reaches the same fun level that Legacy was.

[@mojolmao1752]

Legacy was the most fun ive ever had in life

[@mcbid8782]

@@mojolmao1752 same bro, same

[@broccoli_jaeger]

The future for evrima looks very bright. Now with update 3 the player numbers exploded with 8k players almost every day

[@fluff6811]

Yeah and the upcoming content is also looking very promising. The only thing we have to fear is the time frame

[@broccoli_jaeger]

@@fluff6811 the devs want to move all the mechanics (fractures, perks, nightvision etc.) to update 4 so they can release dinosaurs faster

[@fluff6811]

@@broccoli_jaeger That sounds like a great idea👌

[@sonarganproductions6892]

I don't know why, but even though I joined The Isle in late 2021, this video makes me feel like I've been here for much longer. It makes me feel like part of the community.

[@Gmh-]

It's sad how legacy had so much potential

[@Eggnog88]

Too bad Deathly Rage ruined it

[@brandonforrester7342]

Legacy isle is perfect 🤨

[@johncarlodimaano7235]

Yeah it had a mysterious lore to it and that's what made people play the game is what's it's story is about I hope it gets an update again

[@autumntaco8722]

@@Eggnog88 you mean Dondi's cheating ass ruined it

[@kenshinhimura9387]

@@autumntaco8722 what happened exactly to the isle legacy and this deathly person? Nobody ever talks about it

[@jsaab1080]

if they took time to release this game in a complete stage it would’ve been a genre shaker

[@BeardedWolfKing]

yep, considering around this time, people were still butthurt over DayZ and all the other survival games. The Isle would be the perfect niche of games to grab that audience. Dinos would be the selling point

[@TattleDelta]

I bought the game 2 weeks after it released and those first 2 1/2 years were the most fun I've had in this game. I still have the game installed and check in from time to time, but I just get depressed playing it, it's soul is gone. Even Evrima feels shallow. Gigantic.... empty map.

[@wafflewoofs5684]

That was so emotional.. especially towards the end. Bravo my dude, your voice was just so nice and intriguing I had to keep listening. You did very well and I love it!

[@XZaguer]

im glad you liked it :) hope you will enjoy the rest of the content

[@LuCa8_]

As someone who’s been playing since early access I love l this mini documentary, it’s sums it up very very nicely. Ofc I don’t play as much since the game has changed so much but I still think it’s a great sum up.

[@theallosauruz2840]

It's still early access :)

[@LuCa8_]

@@theallosauruz2840 yea I know it’s still considered early access because they just use it to hide that they update slowwww and shit and so they have a built in excuse

[@MDwesLARL]

39:54 All these dinos are still playable if you change your player data in the server settings, that and growing you is how a lot of servers were able to monetize themselves. I really appreciate the video, man. It definitely helped me understand how The Isle progressed up until I joined when they stopped updating the game for Evrima. Which by the way is incredibly promising, now if only updates were faster... Also, why were the Dibbles so evil?? xD Everytime you showed it I cracked up. Haha

[@XZaguer]

MDwesLARL my man, great fan! Im glad that you enjoyed the video, took me a long while to make it but was a great experience, specially the recording session. I agree, Evrima looks promising, this update 3 changed my mind a bit ngl, we will see if they keep it up. Regarding the dibble, well.... lets just say that i have great fun with it ;) Glad to see you on the channel, keep up with the good work and see you in game :)

[@DEINOSUCHUSX]

10:03 loook at those windy trees such full of life

[@DEINOSUCHUSX]

10:37 bring that enviorment back

[@Lady-Moosh]

I hated the fact that the area I feel like existed for longest was the one that couldnt be recorded :(

[@GMMP1996]

Awsome video. I really enjoyed it. It allowed me to see early versions of the isle that I was not aware existed before. Thank you for your hard work.

[@dalton.futbol]

I remember when the game released I watched TheGamingBeaver play until I got the game i made friends and had fun for the millions of years it was in early access I still play on the evrima branch and how it is not even close to be finished in a year well it’s been 7 years of the game and still fun but also sometimes I go back to og the isle and get nostalgic moments and I can’t wait for the evrima branch to be fully released

[@chokit0733]

Nice video! , this old versions give me nostalgia :(

[@Kokogata]

Amazing video, pretty sure it took you forever to make. I bought the isle at December at 2019 so i have played only on the current maps and dinos. I knew about the previous maps mechanics etc due to videos I saw on youtube I didn't know when it's update take time so this was very educating and interesting to watch. Thank you for the time and effort you putted to make this video

[@XZaguer]

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed the video 🙂

[@hvostgallika]

I've been playing the Isle for about a year and I've never thought about its history so far. After watching i got that weird nostalgic vibes about a time I've never been to before. It was quite an experience. Thanks a lot for your work and good luck with new videos 🙏🤍

[@J72Gaming]

Fantastic work. I thoroughly enjoyed that and can tell how much effort went into editing. As someone who loves the isle but started in 2019, there was a lot here I didn’t know about, thanks for taking the time to make this documentary and share the history! Earned my subscription easily. 🦕😎

[@XZaguer]

Thanks man, really appreciate it :)

[@chinchy111]

I loved velo. Running from dinos and sneaking in the grass trying to scavange on the dead bodies was so fun

[@averytallgremlin2097]

I remember getting this game in 2016, I think I got it sometime in march, and I played consistently for like 3 years only stopping about 3 months before evrima, which I still have not played, but I am currently downloading it. and I can say my favourite moment throughout all of my time playing (about 2k hours) is raising a T-rex army on isla terra, and taking over the server, we were only defeated after we met with a protection herd, a literal army made by our enemy's in response to our invasion, I in particular died to a camarasaurus, but most deaths were caused by trikes and stego's, but we accomplished our goal, just about everyone was reset as everyone was killed, we owned the server for like 6 hours and we all died, excluding a few who left before the war. fun, sadly megapacking is banned now on most servers, possible because of this event, but tbf I think that's for the best, as watching 30 t-rexs run down a hill after a single shant can look pretty silly

[@averytallgremlin2097]

the reason I say I raised the army, it's because I was the first in the group and the first to pop out babies, the game mode was progression, so we wouldn't have had any where near as many rexes if it wasn't for me

[@RavenTheVelociraptor]

I was searching for a video on The Isle Legacy lore. Couldn't find one, I guess no one is crazy enough to make an eight hour video on in-game hints, Discord and Reddit posts. Tbh, Legacy lore is a toss up. And Dondi said that there would be a definetive end to "the story" (debateble whether or not there is an actual story, I think it's always been and still is very vague). But then I found this video and I was like, "Heck yes!!" So I watched it, and loved it. I missed a few locations that made me nostalgic, but I think you said in the comments that you started playing in 2018, so that's alright. Brings back memories from the old maps which I needed. Good work, my dude. Also.. I just realized how eerily similar the Redwood Map looks.. to the DoD og map. The one made from store assets. Could be just me. I hope you cover Evrima one day after four or five years of *its* development. "... and Dibble" *ominous evil music plays in the background*

[@ISO-420]

dude i want to thank you for this video, this video has brought back so many old memories. And the reason of why i love the game.

[@nessid1986]

AND ...... the Devil !! UAAAAAIIIIUUUAAAAEEEOOOOO 29:42 ...HAHAHA laughed my fucking ass off every time 😂

[@erich930]

I joined The Isle community in 2019, around the same time that "The Recode" was announced. I never realized just how much had happened in The Isle's history! If you haven't already, you should make a part 2 for this for any new players coming in just before or after EVRIMA's launch. Apparently, in some of the latest news, concept art for the Quetz is out!

[@ToyTaanic]

I’ve following the isle since 2016 and this video gave me so much nostalgia even though I got the isle august 2018

[@lill2726]

Amazing work! Ive been with the isle since its realise so Its so cool to look back on it. Thanks for taking your time to make this

[@oben6853]

This video is exactly what I was looking for. So sad to see that wonderful game scrapped. Evrima looks very promising I must admit, but I hope that dondi hasn’t bit off more than he can chew, while also bringing back everything from legacy and even improving it. I just really hope evrima doesn’t get scrapped again and we lose all connection with the devs. I’ve experienced this before with the carnivores games.

[@SnuffMumriken]

This guy put more work into his video then the actual developers put into their game lol

[@Rexz2000]

Dondi's schizophrenic map creation, design, and deletion cycle is very visible in this video

[@galkepic9229]

Enjoying your style of documentary

[@pauls5745]

now if they'd halted adding more dinos around Feb '16 and worked on gameplay features, netcode and UI, it'd been far better now than as it now stands with the remake starting with Evrima. they had a small but decent roster, all was missing were relatively small interactive features and refinements to the models and anims. that's all hindsight now, and let's hope the game is on the right track now. very thorough summary! I enjoyed seeing what was and how things came to be. TYSM for saving footage of gameplay from 5+ yrs ago!

[@XZaguer]

i actually didnt save it from back then, i played it while i was making the video ;)

[@happymonkeyfish]

I met a friend on this game back in 2016 and were still friends today, so that was pretty cool

[@Hitokimi]

God it's hard to imagine I've been playing this game since Dec.2 2015. Even when I didn't play it as much back than, playing mostly after the July 2016 update that gave you progression and the baby and juvi models as well as prog points, prog plants and nesting. And when the Qutz was 'in the game'. Lord it's been a wild ride.. when skins where random, and fun and you dreaded the albino skin lol. I'm really really hoping we get a 'wild card' system for skins again with chances of getting albino and melanistic

[@SugaryPhoenixxx]

This was a pretty great all inclusive documentary on one of my favorite games! Great job detailing the updates in order & what they added/removed. It was an emotional roller coaster that felt crazy reliving in the form of a video. I was there since early 2016. But one thing that seemed very strange/off about the video, was that you completely left out Evrima except for like one sentence at the end. At the time that this video was updated, Legacy was already pronounced abandoned but playable, & Evrima was labelled as the actively supported game version. & the definite future of The Isle. How could you make a documentary about the history of this game without featuring Evrima? Maybe you will just have to make a part 2 =) I will definitely watch it if you do!

[@XZaguer]

Glad that you enjoyed the video :) really appreciate it. Regarding evrima, that branch is clearly a different vision for the game so i treated seperately and prefered to just mention it in the end, i noticed that a lot of people have been asking the same thing for the past few weeks, but i think for most of the community, the Isle IS legacy, Evrima is an improvement and an ongoing project from the developers, but many (including myself) feel that legacy had something that evrima lost. It is soon to say for certain that thats the case since evrima is so young however. But i will defenitely make a part 2 eventually, hopefully it will end on a lighter note :)

[@iamandyFEARME]

yes, part 2!

[@lukesanders93]

Honestly I might have to save this video because it’s just so painful and Joyce to look back on all the memories from like 11 to 16 because when I look at different times in the isle because I remember who I was and what was going on in my life at that time and how I felt and that’s pretty special to me quite literally grew up with this game😭😊.

[@michael_zarbo]

wow, this was amazing, thank you so much for this

[@XZaguer]

youre welcome :)

[@danielmalinen6337]

This is heartbreaking to watch. I remember when Isle was just coming out and there was a magazine article about it that I read. It's been a long time and so much has changed, happened and made a drama. But still evoke different feelings than the sad fate of the Saurian.

[@mojolmao1752]

Indeed heartbreaking to watch. Not sure if there are any other words for it. I have quit the isle since late 2020 yet keep coming back to videos of it. Definitely heartbreaking

[@kitchengun1175]

the isle is where all the roblox dino sim kids go after hitting 16

[@gajspalt]

Wait wait wait for a second here, you're telling me they added all these dinos and mechanics, roughly, within a year+ and yet now we are still waiting on updates that take months?

[@SpinexF7]

Yeah pretty much

[@AlexeiX1]

Because now they are making actual content not just dropping models in a game. They are adding actual mechanics so you don't just go around biting stuff aimlessly.

[@iamandyFEARME]

i just finished the video. i'll start off by saying that i appreciate the amount of work that went into this in terms of research, playtime, and editing. i was thoroughly entertained and learned some things about the maps that surprised me and even conflicted with my recollection of past events. i must also say that i was left somewhat disappointed at the lack of context and negative rhetoric surrounding the future of the game that implied an impending doom. a doom, yes, a doom for legacy which was purposely cast aside for its inability to accommodate new and dynamic features that would bring more life to the game in favor of Evrima that has proven that it can. that information has been common knowledge for far too long to have been excluded from a video titled, "The History of The Isle." This video isn't that, this video is a breakdown of all of the important milestones/patches and a good one at that. i'm not defending the games downfalls, but i sorely would like it to succeed so i can continue to enjoy it and share it with friends for even more years to come, i can't help but feel that cynicism may have been too big of an influence on the production of this as well as a lack of revisions in the script that contained errors in terms of features that would "never return" (i.e. flight) (edit: -which leads me to believe that you didn't have the best intentions, though i can understand your grief towards the development of the game.) if you were to post a comment with revisions in regards to recent developments and additions in regards to the remake i would be very appreciative and this video can truly call itself a "History of The Isle" because as of the uploading time THE SCRIPT IS FACTUALLY OUTDATED! 🤥 Thank you again for your hard work, especially your phenomenal editing and by extension your sense of humor, and please don't take my grievances to heart. I look forward to more stuff like this whether it be Isle related or not. peace.

[@iamandyFEARME]

P.S. i know its a lot, but when you've played a game for 2600+ hours over 5 years you will have a lot to say on a game. and yes, i did upvote! it's not a bad video. okay, goodnight. - Smeasel

[@XZaguer]

I appreciate a lot the time you put on making this lengthy comments, from what I remember this is not the first time and it always was very well constructive criticism and I couldn't ask for more. Regarding your points, my intention with the video was to report the development of legacy exclusively, evrima is a remake of the isle and I will take it as such, I think it would be unfair to add it to my video since it is clear that these 2 versions are decently apart from each other in terms of production quality, scope and scale. I will agree with the overly negative tone of the video towards the end, I already had a "not so great" perspective of the isle's development, and feeling 5 years of it in the space of 2 weeks and seeing how much it changed was a bit overwhelming. Even tho this was my first time doing such large project, I can't hide the video's flaws behind my inexperience, the best thing I can say is that I did my best, and I hope you and everybody else enjoyed the video. Once again I appreciate your comments, hope to see you around 🙂

[@iamandyFEARME]

@@XZaguer i can tell 100% that you poured everything into this and thank you for considering all of my points, all in all it is a great video. the nitpicks of an old geezer will never take away from that.

[@Pingvinas199]

Love it ! man that was hard work for you thanks you for this video maked me happy

[@grendel8342]

the fact the community is so against decent controls still baffle me, tank/car controls are not a good option for a multiplayer survival game with a strong focus on melee combat, its just common sense. The only thing separating these playable dinosaurs from things like street fighter characters or dbz open world characters is the model, thats about it. Just because they are dinosaurs or animals, does not mean they can't effectively move in the environment.

[@TattleDelta]

And that's the only thing Evrima has going for it. The dino movement is far more fluid.

[@rickylahey657]

Whenever the isle gets a remake or they just start over from scratch just to be in line with newer games, the isle will be a God among men with graphics and gameplay. Would be legendary

[@Imyourmoose]

7 F years now. I remember playing survival and getting to Rex and Spino. so epic. progressing is better and more logical and I can't wait till the game gets updates more and more. 2022 is doing good, but very slow.

[@paullomas4620]

I'd never heard of this game till it popped up on YT. I must say it's a brilliant game, refreshingly different from most other games I play. I get eaten loads though and never never reach full growth

[@tejistar4017]

There are slight mistakes in this video, acro was added before V3 for example if I remember correctly but this video was awesome and I enjoyed it alot, thank you for making it

[@thegek345]

oml this was a trip down memory lane, this brought out memories that I forgot I had about the game so OG 2015 isle player here, so region 2 when it came out was hands down the pretties map in the game and if you disagree I'll tell you now that you're wrong. Misty Valley tho was like my favorite map, it was perfect for carno players (was a carno main at this time), you can just run things down and they had no where to hide. V4 was a ton of fun when it was out, it was big enough that you could have a large player count on a server and everyone could get away from everyone else. The new biomes that the map had where just beautiful. But 2016-17 was when the game was at its BEST, no other time in the games history can compare. From Progression to survival, modding, all the new maps to explore that was the best time to play the game and the part that sucks is I miss this time and I feel sorry for all the new players who will never get to experience that. How they look at the isle now and say how great and amazing it is and I just think "no it was far better". Like I really am remembering all this stuff right now lol, I remember when they released Bary and how op it was, when they did a stress test for Quetzal and we filled the skies, when bleeding was added and the ground everywhere was just covered in blood, how when you broke your leg it would never heal, how legit 95% of players played Allo when it came out. So many memories in such a short period of time. Bro save this video, this is something all isle players need to see old and new.

[@XZaguer]

Glad to see an OG player here! I was dumb enough to avoid buying the isle for 3 years and lemme tell you how much i regret it xd im glad that you enjoyed the video, hope most of your memories were positive :)

[@cartershortt8342]

2017 is when I first started all the memories pepole I’ve met three the years crazy

[@user-ux6bh6go4y]

As a new player in the year 2023 i feel like the developers have caught lightning in a bottle. They need more dinos a new mode alongside survival and a way to spawn in with your friends every game. I think it would be pretty cool if they added a battle royal mode alongside survival with increased growth. Anyway i look forward to the future of this game.

[@nickzaccheo9294]

Wow Redwood looked amazing!